Since the beginning of 2021, 61 people have suffered from snake bites in Ukraine, of which 31 cases were recorded in July, there were no deaths.
According to the website of the Center for Public Health, among the victims there are 21 children under 17 years of age..
In particular, in the Zaporozhye region, 22 cases were recorded, in the Lviv region -13, in the Zhytomyr region -10, in the Rivne region - six, in the Ivano-Frankivsk region - five, in the Poltava region - two and one case each in the Transcarpathian, Kiev and Chernivtsi regions.
The CPH clarifies that for the same period in 2020, 43 appeals were recorded in connection with snake bites, in 2019 - 131 appeals.
In total, 249 calls were recorded in 2020, of which 49 were children under 17 years old, 83 people received an antidote.
In 2019, 363 complaints were recorded, in 2018 - 396, one person died.